Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi; 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was the preeminent leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India. Employing nonviolent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. The honorific Mahatma—applied to him first in 1914 in South Africa,—is now used worldwide. He is also called Bapuin India. In common parlance in India he is often called Gandhiji. He is unofficially called the Father of the Nation...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionCivil Rights Leader
Date of Birth2 October 1869
CityPortbandar, India
CountryIndia
A true man of piety will consider himself a sinner and, therefore, untouchable.
What crimes, for which we condemn the Government as satanic, have not we been guilty of towards our own untouchable brethren?
The attack on untouchability is an attack on this high-and low-ness.
It is a crime and a sin to regard a person as untouchable because he is born in a particular community.
If untouchability is an integral part of Hinduism, the latter is a spent bullet.
Ravana was a rakshasa but this rakshasi of untouchability is even more terrible than Ravana.
Untouchability is a many-headed monster and forms, some of them so subtle as not to be easily detected.
There is no 'as far as possible' on the question of untouchability. If it is to go, it must go in its entirety from the temples as from everywhere else.
When untouchability is rooted out, these distinctions will vanish and no one will consider himself superior to any other.
My mother would tell me that the shortest cut to purification after the unholy touch was to cancel the touch by touching any Mussalman passing by.
We shall dig our own grave if we do not purge ourselves of this curse of untouchability.
My fight against untouchability is a fight against the impure in humanity.
If untouchability lives, humanity must die.
In battling against untouchability, and in dedicating myself to that battle, I have no less an ambition than to see a full regeneration of humanity.